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Landscape

Here it rains for days on end, for months sometimes.
Stones blackened by downpours.
The paths sodden.

At the ditches’ edge:
tadpoles, tins, dark. A suitcase,
tarred.

Oil leaks
on to the gravel. Above, concrete.
If you scratch the soil, debris,
chipped bricks, rabbits’ teeth.

One can summon human noises,
footsteps, tennis balls. Maybe voices.
Any scrap is allowed in as long as it’s useless.

As this is the void there is space for everything,
and the little that’s here is inconsequential.
Even the railway tracks are perfectly inert,
the lizards still, the carriages
forgotten.

And the chicken-run. Things without a history.
Or outside it. A wheelbarrow
without wheels. A well. A rotting bucket,
bottomless. The name of an idiot:
Luigino. Chicken feathers caught in the fence.
Holes in the fence. Broken threads.
What you won’t call cruelty.

It is what I am: nothing.
I want what I am, intensely.
And words: no one will steal them from me now.

Swiss poet Fabio Pusterla takes the stage at FLIP, Brazil’s main literary festival (www.flip.org.br.) For the occasion, a collection of Pusterla’s poems has been published in Brazil. Swiss poet Prisca Agustoni translated Pusterla’s poems from Italian, her mother tongue, into Portuguese, her acquired language. Specimen has now combined a series of published and previously unpublished poems into a variety of first and second languages.
This project is part of a series of exchanges leading the way to Babel’s Brazilian edition, September 13-16 (www.babelfestival.com).